Monthly Archives: August, 1996

AMS WILL PROVIDE CUSTOMER PLATFORM

FAIRFAX, Va.-American Management Systems, a business and information technology consulting firm, announced an $8.5 million agreement to develop a comprehensive customer care and billing...

SPRINT NOTE ISSUE DOWNSIZED, DELAYED

NEW YORK-Sprint Spectrum L.P. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sprint Spectrum Finance Corp., sold a $523 million note issue Tuesday, the same day the...

FIRMS JOIN TO FIGHT ACTIVATION FRAUD

WALTHAM, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. and Trans Union announced a strategic alliance that will equip the wireless industry with a fraud detection tool designed to reduce...

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM STRESSES TECHNOLOGY

WASHINGTON - The Democratic platform of the party's national convention this week in Chicago will stress technology and applaud the historic enactment of the...

PHS ASTOUNDS TELECOM INDUSTRY WITH RAPID ACCEPTANCE IN JAPAN

From day one, the demand for Personal Handyphone System service in Japan has astounded the world of telecommunications. After only a year in the...

MANDL WILL LEAVE AT&T TO TAKE ON NEW VENTURE

Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl...

OMNIPOINT CHOOSES ORGA FOR SIM CARDS

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. has chosen Paoli, Penn.-based Orga Card Systems to supply subscriber identity modules, or smart cards.Under...

ERICSSON GE WILL PAY BUILDOUT FINES ON FLORIDA COUNTY SYSTEM

WASHINGTON-Sometime this week, the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Department should be able to use most capabilities of an $18 million Enhanced Digital Access Communications...

DFW BUYS CENTERS FROM MOTOR OLA NSD

DALLAS-DFW Communications announced it has purchased Motorola Inc.'s four Dallas/Fort Worth-based two-way radio service centers.The purchase is a result of Motorola's 1995 restructuring of...

WORKING ASSETS BEGINS AFFINITY PROGRAM FOR PAGING CUSTOMERS

NEW YORK-In what is believed to be the first and only such endeavor to date, Working Assets this summer introduced an affinity program in...

CELLULAR ONE OFFERS PREPAID SER VICE TO BOSTON CUSTOMERS

WESTWOOD, Mass.-Cellular One in Boston has launched a no-credit-required calling card service that allows cellular phone users to pay in advance for airtime.With the...

MOTOROLA CHOOSES CONTEST WINNERS

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced the winners of its second annual pager design competition for college student designers. The enormous growth in pager use...

FCC CHARGES CENTEL WITH VIOLATIONS

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission denied all arguments and affirmed its decision to charge Centel Cellular Co. of North Carolina with "endanger public...

INVESTORS WATCH STOCKS WIRELESSLY

NEW YORK-Investors who want up-to-the-minute financial information beamed directly to them will benefit from two recently introduced products from PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas, and...

CSC SIGNS CONTRACT FOR CUSTOMER CARE

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-Computer Sciences Corp. announced it has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar contract to provide billing and customer care services to personal communications...

FIRM PROVIDES SALES INCENTIVES FOR CARRIERS TO LURE CUSTOMERS

Sales strategy in the cellular business is beginning to hint of mass marketing auto-dealer style. "Free phone with activation!" is about as persuasive as,...

LICENSEES MIGHT EXPAND BY AC QUIRING `DOUGHNUTS’

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission apparently has come up with a winning plan to expand its current rules regarding partitioning and spectrum disaggregation by commercial...

AT&T WIRELESS GETS TRANSMISSION SITES

CHICAGO-CenterPoint Properties Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, announced it has reached an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to grant the...

SPECTRUM AUCTIONS PLAY LARGE ROLE IN PLATFORMS

WASHINGTON-Democrats will meet this week in Chicago to launch President Clinton's re-election campaign and try to take away the bounce that the Republican national...

POLAND EXAMINES BUSINESS PRACTICE IN WIRELESS SECTOR

Laws and fairness in Poland's wireless sector are a hot topic this month, as three separate authorities investigate current business practices.A Polish news publication...

PSWAC EXAMINES, DEBATES SOURCES FOR POSSIBLE EXTRA CHANNELS

WASHINGTON-With the final report outlining public-safety spectrum needs through 2010 due Sept. 11, members of the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee continue to debate...

CELLTEST

ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces...

COMSAT PLACES CALL VIA PLANET 1 PHONE

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Personal Communications made a phone call from Malaysia to Germany last week with the Planet 1 phone, using the Inmarsat-3 satellite operating...

DEADLINE WAIVER DENIED TO DE FAULTED PCS WINNER

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continues to mull the fate of the Phoenix license won by CH PCS Inc. during last month's re-auction of 18...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily...
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